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That some cynic had lately bitten him by the brain -- and possibly a cynic himself in a nearly rabid stage of anthropophobia -- we might conclude as reasonably from consideration of the whole as from examination of the parts more especially and virulently affected: yet how much is here also of hyper-Platonic subtlety and sublimity, of golden and

—A Study of Shakespeare

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Aversion to man; dread of meeting persons. He has anthropophobia, being afraid to meet any one about the house. Alien. and Neurol., VI. 144.

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At the same time the other extreme must equally be avoided -- "anthropophobia," which at all costs desires to see in every living organism a "machine," forgetting that a "machine" which lives, that is to say, which grows, takes in nutriment, and strikes a balance between income and expenditure, which, in a word, continually reconstructs itself, is not a "machine," but something entirely different. — The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
That some cynic had lately bitten him by the brain -- and possibly a cynic himself in a nearly rabid stage of anthropophobia -- we might conclude as reasonably from consideration of the whole as from examination of the parts more especially and virulently affected: yet how much is here also of hyper-Platonic subtlety and sublimity, of golden and — A Study of Shakespeare
Then if anthropophobia isn't Tomo's problem, what is The fact that he's talking about taking a trip dirtside," Ross said. — Cascade Point